# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53817"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-09T00:01:15.411Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:16:11.527Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53817"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53817.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53817"
title: "crypto: lib/mpi - avoid null pointer deref in mpi_cmp_ui()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncrypto: lib/mpi - avoid null pointer deref in mpi_cmp_ui()\n\nDuring NVMeTCP Authentication a controller can trigger a kernel\noops by specifying the 8192 bit Diffie Hellman group and passing\na correctly sized, but zeroed Diffie Hellamn value.\nmpi_cmp_ui() was detecting this if the second parameter was 0,\nbut 1 is passed from dh_is_pubkey_valid(). This causes the null\npointer u-\u003ed to be dereferenced towards the end of mpi_cmp_ui()"
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